II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) was established in 1997 as an initiative to record archaeological objects found by members of the general public. Initially set up in pilot form, in 2003 it was extended to the whole of England and Wales. Surveys of Roman period finds recorded by the PAS have been published in Britannia from 2004 onwards. This 18th annual report first briefly summarises the general character of Roman finds reported in 2020. As last year, we no longer present artefact and PAS record numbers in detail by county, since consistent regional differences in artefact frequencies recorded by the PAS are well documented in the first 16 reports. The majority of the report comprises the publication of significant individual and groups of artefacts recorded by Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs).

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confidence: 93%

Ii. Finds Reported Under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Pearce¹,

Worrell²

2021

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“… 45 Walker 2014; Pearce and Worrell 2016. These include a small bust of Marcus Aurelius from Steane (Northants), one of Antoninus Pius from Willingham (Cambs), one of Lucius Verus from Duston (Northants), one of Commodus from Cottenham (Cambs), a small head of Hadrian or an Antonine emperor found at Bix (Oxon), together with a possible Hadrian from Mildenhall (Suffolk) ( contra Walker 2014, 234 where the author identifies the small bronze head with the god Cernunnos).…”

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confidence: 99%

Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

Calomino,

Bologna,

Wilson

et al. 2023

This paper presents a new approach to an old problem, the provincial reception of the image of Roman emperors. Applying 3D computer modelling, we captured the portrait features of Hadrian as represented on coinage minted for the British province, produced a 3D model from a coin and compared it with the bronze head of Hadrian found in London. The aim was to test the possibility, previously posited by other scholars, that the London portrait might have been produced by an artisan who used coin portraits of the emperor as his main – if not only – model. More generally, the paper examines the dependencies of coinage and sculpture on shared models and applies new technology to Roman portrait studies.

II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Pearce¹,

Worrell²

2017

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2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 1997 as an initiative to record archaeological objects found by members of the general public. Initially in pilot form, in 2003 it was extended to the whole of England and Wales. 1 Surveys of Roman period finds recorded by the PAS have been published in Britannia annually since 2004. This fourteenth annual report gives an overview of the character and distribution of finds reported in 2016 and publishes significant individual artefacts recorded by Finds Liaison Officers in this year. 3 Hoards continue to be published in full through the Coin Hoards of Roman Britain series, as well as the individual coins being reported on the PAS database. A collaborative project on hoarding between the British Museum and the University of Leicester continues: 'Crisis or Continuity. Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain with special reference © The Author(s) 2017. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 4 K. Robbins, 'Balancing the scales: exploring the variable effects of collection bias on data collected by the Portable Antiquities Scheme', Landscapes 14 (2013), 54-72.